Teen Strangles Father with Gamepad Cable

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Posted by leph555 on Jan-10-2008 13:59:

Teen Strangles Father with Gamepad Cable

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A 18-year-old was arrested this week after trying to kill his father strangling him with the cable of his videoconsole gamepad. While the videogame console brand hasn't been disclosed yet, the police has been able to establish the circumstances that lead to the almost surrealistic (but strangely understandable) murder attempt:

According to the police, the teenager was playing intensely with a game at the time of the event. The father, who have been warning him for a while to stop playing, went into the room to demand that he turned off the videoconsole. The son ignored the father's orders and kept playing trying to finish his game. As a response, the angry paterfamilias unplugged the power cable, making the son lose his progress in the game.

At that point, the son furiously jumped off the sofa and, angered by the fact that he lost all his game progress tried to strangle his father with the cable of the gamepad, almost achieving it. Fortunately, the wife heard the struggle and helped his husband to break from his agressor. After that, the police and emergency medical teams arrived to the scene, taking the father to the hospital. A few minutes after this, the police arrested the son in a nearby street in Bilbao, the spanish city where the events occurred earlier this week.

The son is now under custody and going to be judged for a domestic violence crime. Now, while I don't approve of his reaction, I have to confess that sometimes I have felt an intense desire to smack someone because of similar reasons, being losing my progress in a long game or a document. I don't care if it happens because another person stepping over the power cable or a general electric failure, but I have to say that I have crashed more than one gamepad and mouse against the wall. What about you?

Source: http://gizmodo.com/343186/teen-stra...h-gamepad-cable

nice...

Posted by Jackson on Jan-10-2008 14:01:

Pfft...dads fault for cheaping out and not buying his son wireless controllers!

Posted by StanVoid on Jan-10-2008 14:06:

people who get this much into video games have problems

Posted by tubularbills on Jan-10-2008 16:09:

goddamn, seriously this is the shit that makes me want to have kids, just so i can beat them and be like, "HEY! sit down, shut the fuck up, and you're not getting any dessert unless you eat your goddamn vegetables"

Posted by Meat187 on Jan-10-2008 16:12:

Posted by Abercrombie on Jan-10-2008 18:41:

That's what happens when you push the wrong buttons with people.

Posted by chach on Jan-10-2008 18:54:

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Originally posted by Abercrombie
That's what happens when you push the wrong buttons with people.

5/10

At least you tried...

Posted by Zoso on Jan-10-2008 18:56:

OMG WHAT CONSOLE WAS IT?!!ELEVNTYONE

Posted by chach on Jan-10-2008 18:58:

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Originally posted by Zoso
OMG WHAT CONSOLE WAS IT?!!ELEVNTYONE

i lold

Posted by eROs.au on Jan-10-2008 23:29:

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paterfamilias

seriously? fucking pretentious

Posted by varun on Jan-11-2008 03:07:

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Originally posted by Jackson
Pfft...dads fault for cheaping out and not buying his son wireless controllers!

Heh, son would've probably given his dad a concussion by beating his head in with the wireless controller

Either way, daddy was going to get his ass kicked.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jan-11-2008 03:09:

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Originally posted by eROs.au
seriously? fucking pretentious

What else would you expect from Gawker Media?

Posted by RandomGirl on Jan-11-2008 04:40:

Ok, as much as it is crazy... I can sort of understand it.

When you invest so much of your time into something, only to have it lost at the whim, it can be nearly maddening.

I once lost a huge ass report because my hard drive died (yes I know, my own stupid fault), but if one could kill a hard drive, and if said hard drive hadn't already died... that hard drive would be so dead.